I made it possible and provided a way to pre-define certain vars in the abi_defs.mk makefile. This makes the build faster (by a surprising amount) on Win32. It also provides a way of specifying definitions for vars without having to hack up your local makefiles every time you checkout a new copy of the source - my compiler doesn't like all the optimizer flags defined by the makefiles, for example. Credit for this idea goes to Glen Ruedinger (http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/August/0350.html) Better late than never, I suppose. :) -Tom
